Be a sweet melody in the great orchestration, instead of a discordant note. The medicine this sick world needs is love. Hatred must be replaced by love, and fear by…

God's blessings be yours, And well may it befall you; Christ's blessings be yours And well be you entreated; The Spirit's blessing be yours, And well spend you your lives;…

Nature has some perfections, to show us she is the image of God; and some imperfections to show us that she is only God's image... Blaise Pascal

Darkness deserves gratitude. It is the alleluia point at which we learn to understand that all growth does not take place in the light. from Uncommon Gratitude by Joan Chittister

As life becomes harder and more threatening, it also becomes richer, because the fewer expectations we have, the more good things of life become unexpected gifts that we accept with…

I'm thankful for a pair of shoes that feels really good on my feet; I like my shoes. I'm thankful for the birds; I feel like they're singing just for…

Seek peace, and pursue it. Psalm 34:14  

Grant me the ability to be alone; May it be my custom to go outdoors each day Among the trees and grasses, Among all growing things, And there I may…

There are two silences. One silence I choose to keep when I need to hear a word that will heal, instruct or console. The other silence comes when I have…

Hope is the realization of the inner connectedness of all things; of your life and your daily activity with the cosmic scheme of things. The awareness of who you are--that…

Hope is rooted in emptiness, in poverty, in a waiting that belongs to the pure in heart. Hopeful silence is patient, thirsty, yet withal dynamic, for it desires to become…

For just as from the heavens the rain  and snow come down And do not return there till they have watered the earth, making it fertile and fruitful, Giving seed…

The world cannot be discovered by a journey of miles, no matter how long, but only by a spiritual journey of an inch, very arduous and humbling and joyful, by…

There will be signs in the sun, the moon and the stars, and on earth nations will be in dismay, perplexed by the roaring of the seas and the waves.…

Let us begin again, for up to now, we have done little or nothing. St. Francis of Assisi, near the end of his life